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of land-ice, although he argued that "the phenomena, 

 as a whole, go to show that the glaciation of Great 

 Britain was not due to a great Polar ice-cap, but was 

 of local and independent origin." 



That Prestwich cherished the idea of publishing in 

 detail his views on the Great Ice Age is evident from 

 a tabular statement drawn up in 1892, which gives a 

 scheme for a paper " On the Glacial Series of the South 

 of England." 1 This task, however, he did not live to 

 accomplish, and the notes remain without the master- 

 hand to mould them into shape, and to decipher the 

 story which they might reveal. 



With the return of Easter his thoughts as usual 

 were with his brother geologists, and he followed all 

 their movements. In a note dated 6th April he ob- 

 serves : "I am glad to hear of the Easter excursions 

 continued under such pleasant conditions, but do not 

 approve of the introduction of that relaxing element, 

 fishing. Why, we sometimes had not time to eat fish, 

 much less catch them. Our vicar's little girl picked up 

 a fine flint implement on the beach near Boscombe." 



Although Prestwich had at an early date made 

 several journeys with his usual companion to Ightham 

 and to other of Mr Harrison's recently found flint- 

 bearing sites, a long list lies before us of joint visits 

 made with their discoverer and other enthusiastic 

 explorers to the ground where rude implements had 

 been found, beginning with a first joint visit to Igh- 

 tham and Oldbury, in September 1881, with his friend 

 Fisher. On to 1893 no year passed without frequent 

 and repeated expeditions, when Prestwich was accom- 



1 The scheme has been printed in the ' Geological Magazine,' Dec. IV., 

 vol. v. p. 404. 



